and communities and lands in southern cities and the impulse to spin the news. it's instantaneous for political rivals to try to use it to political advantage. it happens instantly and shows any society, not -- the divisions of any society. >> you are saying the great camaraderie between the confederate troops and the union troops and everyone sitting together and having meals and eating and sitting with each other. >> out was a quote from a post-war -- by washington williams in the context was african-americans cling to the fact that it's a moment when they are in the thick or circle in which they are dispensing magnanimity in the context for that is a very long-standing charge that goes back as far as we can trace debates about slavery. if you have emancipation you will have race war and chaos and rep result and for williams to highlight a think his account is somewhat wishful but it served the political purpose for them to highlight the possibility of racial reconciliation and to say at appomattox could symbolize racial conciliate -- reconciliation if there's